The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.17 (Platform versions: 2046.20.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700 and Samsung Series 5).This build contains a number of new features, as well as security & stability improvements. Some highlights of these changes are:

New modes for multiple monitor handling: mirrored (highest common resolution only), show only on primary, show only on secondary (Switch with Ctrl + F5)

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels?Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue’ under the wrench menu.Orit MazorGoogle Chrome

@mxx - No, nothing like that. @The_MAZZTer No, we'll only be skipping the Chrome 19 update for CR-48 users due to platform considerations. To be clear, we’re still committed to supporting CR-48 devices and they will continue to receive security and critical updates as necessary. Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks will receive this update and we’ll bring CR-48 devices back onto the release train after this release. Thanks for reaching out and sorry for the inconvenience!

Orit: Can you expound on the platform considerations that are causing you guys to exclude the CR-48? Is there some sort of hardware restriction that causes the CR-48 to be excluded? I'm sure you understand that for loyal beta testers who submitted countless bug reports to the project thus far this is quite a blow.

Seriously? Can you expand on why the CR-48 will not get this update? When you say "platform considerations," what exactly do you mean? I would absolutely love to test this out on my CR-48 because it looks pretty exciting. However, if CR-48 testers aren't even going to get this update, then why bother even having this beta device anymore?

Further explanation would be wonderful at this point. Will we will get this Version 20? Or what?

We plan to bring Aura to Cr48 with Chrome 20, perhaps with a more limited feature set.

The Cr48 device does not have the graphics horsepower to deliver the full Aura experience, and we decided it was more important to focus on a high-quality full experience for Samsung and Acer.

The alternatives would have been either delaying the Aura release for everyone or delivering something that doesn't work well and crashes a lot on Cr48.

For Chrome 20, I hope we can deliver Aura for Cr48. We'll try it in the dev channel soon and learn about how well it works.

We're not abandoning Cr48. We're trying to make something work for Chrome 20, but the Cr48 cannot support all of the beautiful Aura features. We'll start testing Chrome 20 on Cr48 with the next Dev channel update, which should come out within a week.

My Series 5 is still on version 15 of the beta channel. I am trying to switch over to the dev channel and have selected more info and have chosen it from the drop down but it continuously states that it is up to date

WARNINGThe development channel is where ideas get tested, but can be very unstable at times. Please proceed with caution.